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RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Google wants their new backup and sync app to be the go-to backup software. Backing everything on all devices and making them instantly accessible by cloud. It's the permanent replacement for google drive.

Backup and sync is also really buggy. It backed up all my video files which I never marked for backup. Backed up every in-game screen-shot and every e-book cover. If it was an image file on my c drive it'd get backed up, with even odds of that happening to any image files on my phone.

It's really annoying to go from having 6 gigs of files on google drive to getting an email saying that almost all 120 gigs of space were used up.

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RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

Furism posted:

Somebody read their Terms & Conditions/EULA? Pretty sure they're going to look at the files metadata for their usual marketing purposes. Microsoft already does this with Office 365 to sell you later on "business intelligence."

Note I'm not saying whether or not it's true or false or good or bad, just that people should make sure what Google is going to do with their files.

Well, I'm just uninstalling backup and sync and accepting that google drive is going to be taken offline in a few months.

Crashplan looks like it was the go-to until it went business clients only. What are the affordable alternatives?

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